The first 2 or 3 poses in a life drawing session are typically short, in our group we have 2 x 5 minutes and 1 x 10 minutes. When I was in Art College, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, we started with 30 -second poses and worked up to 2 minutes! That was serious discipline.Continue reading “The Quick Poses…”
Tag Archives: life drawing
Portrait Drawing Week 3: No Bags And Wrinkles.
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I’m back at life drawing at Swansea Print Workshop after a long, long gap (see here) and I’m using these sessions to practice portrait drawing. I’ve set myself some goals and I’ll probably be doing this every Thursday evening for the next year or so. These areContinue reading “Portrait Drawing Week 3: No Bags And Wrinkles.”
Portrait Drawing: Week 2
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I’m back at life drawing after a long, long gap (see here) and I’m using these sessions to practice portrait drawing. I’ve set myself some goals and I’ll probably be doing this every Thursday evening for the next year or so. These are my sketches from weekContinue reading “Portrait Drawing: Week 2”
Proofing A Portrait Print
I transferred my portrait drawing to a block of traditional grey lino this week, carved it and took the first proof print from it. I’m quite pleased with the resule. I’m being very strict with time and I did this process from the first pencil mark on paper, through 9 drawings, carving the block andContinue reading “Proofing A Portrait Print”
Transfer And Carve
Last week I did a series of portrait drawings at Swansea Print Workshop’s Life Drawing Group. I chose the best likeness, the last drawing as it happened, and I transferred it to a block of traditional grey lino and then started carving. The drawings took 2.5 hours, the transfer about 15 minutes and so farContinue reading “Transfer And Carve”
Got There In The End
Here are the final three sketches I did last week at life drawing group at Swansea Print Workshop. I’m going to be focusing on portrait drawing for the foreseeable future and I want to improve my technique to get an accurate likeness as quickly as I can. But for me, it still takes a while, sloggingContinue reading “Got There In The End”
Keeping At It
Here are the next 3 sketches from the life drawing session last night. I’m going to be focusing on portrait drawing for the foreseeable future and we had a long pose yesterday so I was able to get in a lot of practice. These are more accurate than the first three I did and IContinue reading “Keeping At It”
Portrait Drawing Week 1: Back In The Saddle
I took voluntary redundancy from my job last week, so this week I returned to the evening life drawing sessions at Swansea Print Workshop. I used to go regularly, for years, but as I grew older I found I was too tired after a working day and I’ve probably not been for about 4 years.Continue reading “Portrait Drawing Week 1: Back In The Saddle”
Sketchbook Archives: 5
Back to January 2012, when I posted these to my blog. They weren’t all drawn then though. I started the blog in July 2011 to post my sketchbook drawings so I was choosing from several years worth of scribbles when I first began blogging.
One From The Archives: Beautiful Head.
I’ve been thumbing through my portfolios again (there are stacks of them!) and came across this portrait sketch from 2016, I remember really enjoying drawing this model.
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